Jeff Fort

Jeff Fort (20 February 1947-), also known as Abdul Malik Ka'bah, was the co-founder of the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation of Chicago. In 1987, he was sentenced to 186 years in prison for planning to commit terrorist attacks in the United States in exchange for $2.5 million and weapons from Libya.

Rise to power
Jeff Fort was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1947, and he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois in 1955. He dropped out of high school in his freshman year, and he formed the Blackstone Rangers gang in 1959. He was nicknamed "Angel" for forming alliances and solving disputes with other gangs, and, by the mid-1960s, he assembled a coalition of 21 gangs with 5,000 members, involving the gang in community and political activism. In 1967, under the guidance of Reverend John Foy, Fort created the Grassroots Independent Voters of Illinois group. In 1969, he was invited to President Richard Nixon's inaugural ball due to the popularity of the Blackstone Rangers. By then, the coalition had been renamed to the "Almighty Black P. Stone Nation".

Almighty Black P. Stones
The Stones gained control of vice on the South Side of Chicago, and they engaged in robberies, extortion, and forced recruitment. In 1969, he was summoned before a US Senate committee for using his organization's jobs program to recruit criminals, but he walked out after introducing himself. In 1972, he was sentenced to five years in prison for misusing federal funds, but he was paroled in 1976. During his time in prison at Leavenworth, he converted to Islam and assumed the name "Prince Malik".

After his release from prison in 1976, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and renamed his gang to "El Rukn Tribe of the Moorish Science Temple". In 1977, he purchased The Oakwood, an old vacant movie theater, and he made the theater the headquarters of his gang as "The Fort". During the 1970s, the gang trafficked heroin and cocaine, and he was convicted of drug trafficking in 1983 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. While in prison, he ordered gang members to meet with Libyan officials, and the gang agreed to commit terrorist acts in exchange for $2.5 million and weapons. In 1987, he was sentenced to 80 years in prison, and he was sentenced to 75 more years in prison in 1988.